Chapter 2082 "The Magician at the End of the Century"

When Georgiana returned to the tent, the banquet was still going on, but because it was raining outside, the stage could not continue to perform outside, but this did not affect the performance of the magicians, who began to perform close-up magic.

"Okay, you've all chosen. Please put your cards anywhere in the deck." A magician said to the audience. Four of them chose an a, and they followed the magician's instructions.

Instructions are put into any position in the deck, and then the cards are shuffled.

Then a magical scene happened, four aces actually appeared on the top of the card.

Georgiana ignored this little trick and walked aside.

"Alone?" Mr. Stanley suddenly appeared and blocked her way.

"I have to stay and take care of the guests." Georgiana said with a smile, "Why are you alone?"

"Because I'm always ready to be your knight." Stanley said with a smile and raised his arms, "Can you?"

Georgiana hesitated for a moment, then took Stanley's arm and continued to wander around the tent.

Except there are no animals, this place looks more and more like a circus.

"You just missed Will Dale's escape show." Stanley pointed at a shirtless Italian and said, "He was the most famous magician at the end of the 18th century."

"What's that for?" Georgiana asked, looking in another direction.

There was an officer who was struggling to carry a small box. It looked like a 10-year-old child could move the box.

"I'll tell you a secret." Stanley said in Georgiana's ear, "There is a steel plate in the box, and there is a magnet under the stage. As long as it is powered on, it will generate super strong suction."

"How do you know?" Georgiana looked at him in surprise.

"I know an engineer who is interested in cracking the tricks of the 'Magician'." Stanley smiled and said, "He also cracked the secret of the 'Turkish Robot'."

“What is Mechanical Turk?”

"At the court of Empress Maria Theresa of Austria, an inventor named Wolfgang von Kempelen demonstrated a chess-playing machine, a robot carved from maple wood.

Wearing a Turkish dress, he declared that it could defeat anyone in the court, so one of the Queen's advisors accepted the challenge. Kempelen opened the mechanism, which had many levers and gears, and then he used a key to wind it.

Article." Stanley said while gesturing, "The robot started to move, but it wasn't just about moving, it defeated the Queen's advisor in less than 30 minutes."

"Really?" Georgiana said in disbelief.

"Kempelen toured Europe with this chess-playing machine, defeating some of the most powerful minds of the time, including Benjamin Franklin and Frederick the Great."

"Then why didn't he come this time?"

"Kempelen is dead. Besides, I believe no one can beat Napoleon Bonaparte."

Georgiana laughed.

"My engineer friend, after Kempelen's death, the machine was sold to a German instrument manufacturer. He visited the owner, and when he took it on a world tour, the engineer found that it was not

This machine can really play chess, but there are people hiding inside, and there are magnets under the chess pieces, so that the chess master hiding in the box can judge the chess game on the magnet chessboard, and then he uses a zoom device to move his arm

The movements were synchronized with the movements of the Mechanical Turk sitting on it. However, the engineer did not expose the hoax, nor did he spend the time to write articles to expose it like his peers."

"He blackmailed the owner of that machine," Georgiana said.

"No, why do you think that?" Stanley said in surprise.

"Is not it?"

"He is only 11 years old."

Georgiana's eyes widened in surprise.

"His father was a banker and very rich, so he didn't need to do that," Stanley said.

"But you said he was an engineer..."

"Mr. Watt started learning to make machines when he was 7 years old. The child I just mentioned has already studied university courses by himself. If it weren't for his age, he could have gone to Cambridge University. It is precisely because he is a child.

, the magicians allowed him backstage, and then he learned the secrets."

"Is he here today?" Georgiana looked at the children in the venue.

"I heard you just watched a show outside."

"There was a young man who brought a wooden barrel that could spray a fountain of flames."

"That's the German style, look at that guy."

Georgiana followed Stanley's hand and looked over. There was a man in an evening gown. There was a table in front of him. He was also performing card magic, but the difference was that the selected cards on a card were

Like a levitation technique, it slowly floated into his hand.

"That's Howard Thurston, the most outstanding card magician of the late 18th century." Stanley said, "Do you know why so many magicians want to attend the dinner party you hosted?"

Georgiana thought of what Stanley had just said about the "Turkish robot that can play chess."

"Is it because...of the European tour?"

"It's the 19th century now, who is the best magician in the new century?" Stanley said.

As soon as Stanley finished speaking, there was thunder outside the tent.

This loud noise scared many people, and they couldn't help but go out to watch.

Then everyone saw a handsome young man standing on the empty stage. Behind him were thunder and lightning, and strange birds with brilliant feathers were flying in the air. They turned into a ball of fire after being struck by lightning.

, fell to the ground and disappeared without a trace.

It was not so much a "magic" as a "miracle", and the performer was Thor Rozier.

Georgiana's mind went blank for a moment, and then she calmly took a sip of red wine.

No one felt scared, water is conductive, and the water droplets falling on the faces of the audience made them feel the feeling of being electrocuted. They cheered excitedly. When Rozier turned all the strange birds into

After the fireball hit, the rain also ended, the dark clouds gradually dispersed, and the weather became sunny again. The onlookers began to applaud enthusiastically, and even a young girl looked at Rozier with excitement.

She remembered the calm eyes and smiles of those Muggles the last time they Apparated near Justin's house.

Maybe they thought she and Severus were "magicians" performing on the streets.

Yes, you know very well that the magician used some kind of trick to deceive your eyes, but you can't take apart the magician's props to find out, unless you spend a lot of money to buy his machine, and it's possible

It was after the magician died.

You're curious about how he does it, so you watch his show again and again, trying to decipher it, buying tickets every time you go, and this is where the magician's income comes from.

Once you understand the secret, it will feel like nothing serious, but this feeling of "unknown" is exactly what motivates you to buy tickets.

Suddenly there was a scream from the seaside, and with a "bang", a large group of fireworks bloomed in the air.

As if this was a signal, more fireworks rose into the sky, and the grand fireworks show began, followed by a light show not far away, making the entire night sky colorful.

"I thought there wouldn't be any fireworks tonight," Stanley asked Georgiana.

Georgiana had said that she did not want a fireworks display tonight, not only because Le Havre had been setting off fireworks all night, but also because the sound of the fireworks would remind her of the new cannons deployed on the artillery fortifications.

But when had Napoleon ever been "obedient"?

"Shut up, Stanley, and watch the show." Georgiana drank wine while watching the fireworks.

The party had just begun, but Bonaparte left so early, but who said he was a big shot? What a pity, look what he missed.
Chapter completed!